Sunday, September 07, 2025

AI Hallucination Converting an Obituary to ASCII

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On Sept 7, 2025 I asked Gemini to use this newspaper obituary and "convert to ascii please". Gemini did a great job for a while an...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Scripts For Converting Various Video Formats To Mp4 Using ffmpeg

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 My scripts for converting various video formats to mp4 using ffmpeg, which is amazing! Used my macbook with the M4 Pro chip in zsh and it f...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Spotlight not finding apps

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 On my mac running Monterey 12.7.6, Spotlight forgot all about the "printers and scanner" app and others. Fixed it by issuing the ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Tips on Downsizing or How to Throw Stuff Away

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 I went to a seminar on how to get rid of all your extra stuff, kinda like Maria Kondo. Here's the tips I learned: 1. Whenever you buy s...
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Thursday, October 19, 2023

CostPlusDrugs.com is a winner

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 I just picked up a tube of Mometasone Furoate from CVS. Cost me $44.21. I came home and checked on CostPlusDrugs.com . It's on $14.15 f...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Best Wordle Words Mathematically

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Best Wordle Words Mathematically TLDR: Best Wordle Words AROSE UNTIL DUCHY BLIMP GAWKY How to select the best words to guess in Wordle? Here...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

How to Programmatically Add Tags to Files in OS X on a Mac Using C# Without Libraries

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While working on photos, I wanted to programmatically add tags to photos. The tags would be read from a file. I formally used Finder to do t...